I grew up on this stuff. Brings back good memories of simpler times when hippies were only hooking up with one stringy-haired chick...
Now, they are like dogs out there....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdWobrZUyMA
I had some stringent words with an acquaintance who has left the Church. I mentioned that he is either a wicked man, or an adulterous man; or a combo of both. He is calling out everyone but Jesus. And that last bastion likely will come if he continues down the path he is on. He says he is currently a "Christian" - but no longer is a Mormon.
The problem with having a knowledge of the fullness of the Gospel, is that once you abandon it, you cannot fall back to anything other than no belief in God. Usually, this is catastrophic as people lose hope in anything and depression and mental health issues are the result. I have seen it in so many cases. It is complete and total catastrophic failure of the human condition. Instead of hope, there is despair. Instead of charity and caring, people often descend into a hardened state, eventually seeking the blood of those who hold tight to the values that those who have rejected. The very Book of Mormon that is rejected, charts the course from Korihor (as an individual rejecting the truth) all the way to the hardening of a once-favored people who sought violence continually and the eventual extinction of those who were slightly less hardened. It will happen one last time in the exact same spot as this nation falls and the light that once illuminated the world as a beacon of hope, is extinguished.
Right now, there is a debate amongst the "watching and waiting" crowd in Cardston as to whether the local purge will come from the Lamanites or from those who have become disaffected from the Church. So, my goal is befriend the natives and to call as many "sifteds" out as I can in the hopes of lessening the blow a little when it all goes down.
We are right on track. President Nelson and the First Presidency will take on the gads (by holding our stance and position of values according to God's will) and the results will be persecution.
Are you ready? I came to the conclusion this weekend, that the thing that all the apostates that I have come in contact with, is that they either have no knowledge of Church history, or if they do, it was an intellectual one only, and the seed fell on stony ground before it could take hold. Most of this due to failures in the Law of Chastity. Of the apostates in my family, it always has centered around the Law of Chastity.
Thus, when scratching my head about how a group of people could reject Christ (amazing teacher, filled with the Spirit of God, smarts as half-God, half man), the only thing that makes sense, is what He said. "A wicked and adulterous (fornicatious) generation seeks after a sign (or is not capable of enduring good counsel and sound doctrine, because the breach in the Law of Chastity makes them impervious to the entreatments of the Holy Ghost).
It is so simple to me. Thus, the reason the great sifter of those who will rise to the next stage of existence (the Terrestrial kingdom), is those who are capable of keeping the Law of Chastity. It is all spelled out in the Endowment. Those who can keep the Law of Consecration fully and pass their Abrahamic test, qualify for Celestial living.
This life is about the survival of the spiritual fittest. It is all so simple.
I may have mentioned that a study stated that barely 20% of those who left the Church joined another religion. I imagine the residual understanding of the Plan of Salvation makes most other religions of little interest. For some one to leave and join another Church, they would either not understand or spiritually recognize the PofS or are just plain needy.
ReplyDeleteFor others, they concoct their own belief system that enables them to sin, ignore inconvenient restrictions or what ever they choose. They just have to be good people.
Even psychopaths obey rules of social norms and do their deeds in the dark.
Just be nice, accepting, permissive and supportive of all kinds of perversions and wickedness even though they may not engage in themselves.